2. 1. If any Person:
II. Treating animals cruelly
a) Beats, kicks, over-rides, over-drives, over-loads, tortures or otherwise treats
any animal so as to subject it unnecessary pain or suffering or causes or,
being the owner, permits any animal to be so treated; or
b) Employs in any work or labour any animal which, by reason of any disease,
infirmity, wound, sore or other cause, is unfit to be so employed, or being the
owner, permits any such unfit animal to be so employed; or
3. c) Willfully and unreasonably administers any injurious drug or injurious substance to
any domestic or captive animal or willfully and unreasonably causes or attempts to
cause any such drug or substance to be taken by any domestic or captive animal; or
d) Conveys or carries, whether in or upon any vehicle or not, any animal in such a
manner or position as to subject it to unnecessary pain or suffering or
e) Keep or confines any animal in any cage or other receptacle which does not
measure sufficiently in height, length and breadth to permit the animal a reasonable
opportunity for movement; or
f) Keeps for unreasonable time any animal chained or tethered upon an
unreasonably short or unreasonably heavy chain or cord; or
g) being the owner, neglects to exercise or cause to be exercised reasonable any dog
habitually chained up or kept in close confinement; or
4. h) being the owner of any captive animal, fails to provide such animal with
sufficient food, drink or shelter; or
i) without reasonable cause, abandons any animal in circumstances which
render it likely that it will suffer pain by reason of starvation or thirst; or
j)willfully permits any animal is affected with contagious or infectious disease
or without reasonable excuse permits any diseased or disabled animal, of which
he is owner, to die in any street; or
k) offers for sale or, without reasonable cause, has in his possession any animal
which is suffering pain by reason of mutilation, starvation, thirst, overcrowding
or other ill treatment; or
5. Needlessly mutilates any animal or kills any animal in any unnecessary cruel
manner; or
m) Confines or cause to be confined any animal in such a manner as to make it an
object of pray for any other animal solely with a view to providing entertainment
for the other persons; or
n) For the purpose of his business, organizes, keeps, used or acts in the
management of, any place for animal fighting or for the purpose of baiting any
animal or permits or offers any place to be so sued or receives money for the
admission of any other person to any place kept or used for any such purposes; or
6. Promotes or takes part in any shooting match or competition wherein animals are
released from captivity for the purpose of such shooting he shall be punishable in
case of first offence, with fine which may extend to fifty rupees and in case of
seconds or subsequent offence committed within three years of the previous offence,
with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees or with imprisonment for a term
which may extend to three montsh or with both.
7. For the purpose of sub-section (1), an owner shall be deemed to have
committed an offence it he has failed to exercise reasonable care and
supervision with a view to the prevention of such offence:
Nothing in this section shall apply to:
a) The dehorning of cattle, or the castration or branding or nose-roping of any
animal, in the prescribed manner; or
b) The destruction of stray dogs in lethal chambers or by other methods with a
minimum of suffering; or
c) The experimentation or destruction of animal under the authority of any
law for the time being in force; or
d) Any matter dealt with in chapter iv; or
8. The commission or omission of any act in the course of the destruction
or the preparation for destruction of any animal as food for mankind
unless such destruction or preparation was accompanied by the infliction
of unnecessary pain or suffering.
